Data Center Engineer - #2160134

Data Centre Engineer – 6 Month Contract

Location: Leeds – Hybrid

Contract: 6 months

Working Pattern: 3 days per week

Rate: £400 per day

Industry: Financial Services

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Data Centre Engineer to join a financial services organisation on an initial 6-month contract, working 3 days per week in Leeds.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the day-to-day operation, maintenance and resilience of the organisation's data centre infrastructure. You will work closely with infrastructure, network, security and wider technology teams to ensure a highly available, secure and well-managed environment.

This role would suit an engineer with strong hands-on data centre experience who is comfortable working within a regulated financial services environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain data centre infrastructure, ensuring high levels of availability and resilience.
• Carry out physical installation, configuration, maintenance and decommissioning of servers and associated equipment.
• Perform rack and stack activities, structured cabling and equipment moves/adds/changes.
• Monitor data centre infrastructure and respond to incidents, faults and service requests.
• Support hardware break/fix activities and coordinate with third-party vendors where required.
• Maintain accurate asset, configuration and infrastructure documentation.
• Support data centre moves, migrations, upgrades and infrastructure projects.
• Work with network, server, storage and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot technical issues.
• Ensure all work is completed in accordance with change management, security and operational procedures.
• Support capacity planning, environmental monitoring and data centre resilience activities.
• Follow appropriate health & safety, security and access-control procedures.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of data centre processes and standards.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience working as a Data Centre Engineer / Data Centre Technician / Infrastructure Engineer.
• Strong hands-on experience with physical data centre environments.
• Experience with server hardware, racks, cabling and associated infrastructure.
• Experience troubleshooting hardware and infrastructure issues.
• Familiarity with data centre monitoring, environmental controls and power/cooling infrastructure.
• Experience working within formal ITIL/change-management processes.
• Strong documentation and incident-management skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with wider technical teams.
• Experience working in a regulated or highly controlled environment, ideally financial services.

Desirable

• Experience with enterprise server technologies such as Dell, HPE or Lenovo.
• Knowledge of SAN/storage technologies.
• Familiarity with networking equipment and structured cabling.
• Experience supporting data centre migrations or infrastructure refresh programmes.
• ITIL certification or equivalent experience.
• Experience working within a financial services, banking or similarly regulated environment.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001, PCI DSS or other relevant security/control framework